SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Diction
Denouement
Structure
2. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Exposition
Conflict
Image
Lyric Poem
3. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Paradox
Syntax
Ode
Onomatopoeia
4. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Subplot
Caesura
Irony
Narrator
5. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Audience
Style
Climax
Stereotype
6. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Alliteration
Villanelle
Author's Purpose
Dialect
7. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Denouement
Ode
Flashback
8. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Assonance
Character
Aside
Narrator
9. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Fiction
Structure
Villanelle
Mood
10. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Rhyme
Persona
Octave
Repetition
11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Epic
Falling Action
Climax
Personification
12. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Catharsis
Anapest
Repetition
Metonymy
13. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Conflict
Analogy
Aubade
Closed Form
14. The time and place of a story or play.
Situational Irony
Complication
Image
Setting
15. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Aubade
Tone
Sonnet
16. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse
Rising Action
Elegy
Metaphor
17. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Theme
Enjambment
Understatement
Verbal Irony
18. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Epigram
Imagery
Subject
19. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Denouement
Elegy
Simile
Cliche
20. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Personification
Subject
Aphorism
Protagonist
21. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Meter
Syntax
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Lyric Poem
22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Reversal
Literal Language
Flashback
Rising Action
23. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Rhythm
Understatement
Spondee
Subplot
24. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Setting
Parallelism
Iamb
Characterization
25. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Closed Form
Imagery
Persona
26. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Satire
Synecdoche
Epiphany
Comic Relief
27. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Motif
Symbol
Understatement
28. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Elision
Assonance
Climax
Mood
29. A four line stanza in a poem.
Repetition
Tone
Caesura
Quatrain
30. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Lyric Poem
Figurative Language
Falling Action
Ode
31. Broken down acts.
Scenes
Alliteration
Literal Language
Satire
32. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
1st Person
Blank Verse
Onomatopoeia
Aubade
33. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Pyrrhic
Conceit
Convention
Epigram
34. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Pyrrhic
Convention
Closed Form
Exposition
35. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Quatrain
Meter
Characterization
Narrator
36. The main character of a literary work.
Parallelism
Protagonist
Stanza
Theme
37. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Understatement
Complication
External Conflict
38. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Apostrophe
Literal Language
Epigram
3rd Person (Omniscient)
39. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Symbolism
Scenes
Aside
Image
40. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Paradox
Spondee
Falling Meter
Figurative Language
41. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Epigram
Point of View
Repetition
42. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Reversal
Stereotype
Falling Meter
Apostrophe
43. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Falling Meter
Narrative Poem
Antagonist
Solioquy
44. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Characterization
Tercet
Oxymoron
Catharsis
45. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Synecdoche
Pyrrhic
Exposition
Sestina
46. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Complication
Meter
1st Person
Sestet
47. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Folklore
Ballad
Ode
Foil
48. The organizational form of a literary work.
Foot
Structure
Narrative Poem
Allegory
49. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Oxymoron
Flashback
Exposition
Analogy
50. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Hyperbole
Foil
Foreshadowing
Analogy